Boom!
Flames erupted.
"Aaaah!"
Zhu Bajie immediately howled in pain and went rampaging through Lotus Cave again. With his tail on fire, he looked miserable and bedraggled. His piercing screams rang out-a pain only a man could understand.
"Wh-what happened to Bajie? What is he doing?"
Outside, Guanyin frowned. Seeing Zhu Bajie's wretched state filled her mind with questions. Was this a ploy to win sympathy through suffering, or something else? Why had Zhu Bajie become so huge?
Did he have some strategy in mind?
"I don't know. Perhaps Second Senior Brother has a plan?" Little White Dragon could not make sense of it either, but he could tell that Zhu Bajie was taking a beating.
"Little White Dragon, go help him. Something seems wrong with Bajie."
Puzzled though she was, for some reason, a sense of foreboding rose in Guanyin's heart.
"All right!"
Little White Dragon immediately prepared to step forward!
"Aaaah... it hurts, it hurts, it hurts..."
Just then, however, the magical restraint keeping Zhu Bajie in mosquito form finally wore off. He returned to his true form, clutched the flames burning at his crotch, and frantically sprinted out of Lotus Cave.
As he fled, however, he failed to notice the transparent strings bound around his hands and feet.
A killer with a cloth mask over his face, dressed like a ninja, followed close behind him.
"All right, the props are attached."
"The String Puppet Machine and the Knockdown Killer have both been deployed!"
"Now, everyone, look forward to Second Senior Brother's next performance!"
Zhu Bajie's escape had naturally been within Golden Horn and Silver Horn's expectations. They had merely eased the Shrinking Tunnel's magical restraint a little, and Zhu Bajie had fled on his own.
Of course, during the process just now, Zhu Bajie had already fallen